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With the demand for Pega certified developers growing, the US-based firm is going to tie up with top universities and educational institutions to make the certification programmes a part of the curriculum.
It also has started tapping the vast pool of Java and .NET professionals to increase the Pega developer community.
The firm, which has huge presence in India, will talk to the IITs, International Institute for Information Technology (Hyderabad) and a few other institutes in this regard. It provides a platform to build digital enterprise solutions.
There are about 15,000 Pega certified developers in the world. “It is expected to grow to 50,000 in the next five years as the number of Internet connected devices shoot up. You need to have devices that can facilitate seamless flow of information as the users move from one device to another,” Suman Reddy Eadunuri, Managing Director of Pegasystems India, told BusinessLine here.
India accounted for about 75 per cent of the 15,000 Pega developers in the world. But the company felt that the number was not proportionate to the demand from partners. “As a result, the firms are resorting to poaching, offering huge salaries. We would like to address this problem by increasing the base,” he said. The company expected that the bulk of 50,000 developers it wanted to create would come from India. “We are planning to address this in three ways. While continuing the traditional method of offering the certification programmes through authorised partners, we would like to tap the Java and .NET professionals and reach out to the educational institutions,” he said.
Dedicated sessionAs part of this strategy, the company dedicated a session to the Java and .NET professionals at the second global Pega Developers’ conference that concluded here on Monday. “We told them how easy for them to acquire a new skill and tap the unfolding demand for Pega platform,” he said.
About 2,500 developers attended the conference that discussed the digitisation of businesses and resulting demand for quicker go-to-market strategies in developing technology solutions.
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